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The Feldenkrais Method engages the nervous system using very gentle, easy movements that help you to change your habits and allow you to move more efficiently, gracefully, and comfortably. You will feel better, move better, and even think better!

Whatever your goal....to run faster, improve your fencing moves, or just get back to doing what you love to do...the Feldenkrais Method will help you to get there. And you will feel more relaxed and ready to meet life's challenges in the process.

I am excited to offer private functional integration lessons in Stone Ridge at MaMA, Marbletown Multi-Arts, in addition to my offerings at the Bloomingburg studio. It is a beautiful space for this work. Please call 845.978.6506 to find out about availability.

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Children desperately want to communicate. When children cannot communicate using words or signs, they are frustrated and often not very happy. It is not merely a matter of modeling language for them, since they live in a world filled with constant communication. Instead, it is a matter to take up with the brain! The Feldenkrais Method uses movement to create new neural pathways in the brain, and for most children this means improvement not only in movement, but in speech and learning.

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There has been a revolution in brain science over the past twenty years. Scientists have discovered that we continue to forge new connections in our brains throughout our lives! This is huge, as before this, it was widely believed that during middle age, we began to lose brain cells and brain function until we finally reached a form of second childhood in our old age. Norman Doige, MD, was one of the first doctors to bring this to the public in a very readable form. If you have not read The Brain that Changes Itself, his first book on the subject, then you should.

Curiosity is the key to learning. Think about how entranced a baby gets when she "finds" her hands and her feet. There is this fascination with the movement of the fingers as the baby begins to realize that these are part of her. That fascination with movement and attention to herself creates a healthy environment for learning. This comes about spontaneously for most children, but some children need a little help to spark this kind of exploration and interest that leads to early learning. The Feldenkrais Method™ allows a child to find her curiosity by focusing on all of the healthy parts of her rather than focusing on the places of difficulty.

We do our best learning when there is someone there to point out all of the things we are doing right and to encourage us to keep going. Instead, when a therapist or a parent tries to open the tightened fist of a child with cerebral palsy, he is engaging with the child from the place of her greatest difficulty. None of us does our best learning under these circumstances. Think of something that is not easy for you to learn. Then imagine that your teacher constantly brings this to your attention, no matter what you are trying to learn. Do you think you would learn efficiently? Would you grow to love learning and to seek it out in your world? Probably not.

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Classes

Tuesday evening

6:30-7:45 p.m. at MoveBeWell Studio with Beth

The spring session of Awareness Through Movement will run through the end of June. The cost for the full 12-week series is $144. Drop-ins are welcome for $15/class. Please call ahead to make sure there is room.

Testimonials

For many years, I have tried –and failed --to learn to use my mind to relax my body.

Until I found Lynn Kenny's Feldenkrais class.

Five or six of us meet once a week in a bright, warm, clean, peaceful and safe studio space with shiny wooden floors. For an hour and a half we lay quietly on the floor and listen to Lynn guide our thoughts and bodies through a series of subtle, slow and powerful movements.